All things are poisons, for there is nothing without poisonous qualities. It is only the dose which makes a thing poison. – Paracelsus This is a small, dull white mushroom that is widely distributed in North America and Great Britain. It is about 1 – 2 inches tall with a 3/8 -1.5-inch-wide cap. It has no […]
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If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us. -Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed
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Darkness fell and now Coyote listened for the voices and he looked all round, he looked hereand there, but nothing appeared. Coyote sat there in the middle of the prairie. He sat there allnight but the lodge didn’t appear again nor did the ghost ever return to him. From Nez Perce mythology, Coyote and the Shadow
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he morning was fair and the day proved favorable to our operations . . . in the early part of the day two of our men fired on a panther, a little below our encampment, and wounded it; they informed us that it was very large, had just killed a deer partly devoured it, and
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Since when did they change it to opossum? When I was comin’ up it was just possum. Opossum makes it sound like he’s Irish or something. Why do they gotta go changing everything? – Jesse Pinkman, Breaking Bad. The opossum is a marsupial and the only one present in North America. The species is thought to
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